Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1887-08-24
GOVERNOR STEVENSON IN.
TERvIEWED.

The following interview appeared
in the Los Angeles Tribune of the
18th inst:
Governor c. C. Stevenson, of Ne
vada, is in the city, looking after
his large interests in Southern Cali
fornia. A reporter for the Tribune
found him last evening in conversa-
ton with Mr.. William Hardy of
San Francisco. Governor Steven
son is a man in the prime of life,
of fine presence, and distinguished
bearing. He is the present Govern
or of Nevada. He greeted the re-
porter with cordially, and remark
ed that his friend, Mr.. j. w. Mad
drill, who was for years State Print
err of Nevada, was one of the Pro-
prietors of the Tribune, congratu-
lated the paper upon the fact. The
Governor was asked his opinion of
the present status of the political
field.
"Well," said he, 81 am a Blaine
man first, last and all the time.
There is no question that Blaine
will receive the nomination. If the
convention were held this mouth he
would be nominated by reclamation.
Unless there is some grave chance
before next June, Blaine will be the
Republican candidate and he will
be elected, too, over any man that
the Democrats can put up. Ne
vada's opinions and sentiments
are mine also. Yes, sir, Blaine
is the next President"
"Whom will the Democrats put
in nomination."
cleveland of course but he has
no chance whatever. 1 think the
ticket will be- Cleveland and Hill. /
have no doubt that the matter is al
ready arranged. Hill will let
Cleveland have the nomination this
time on the condition that he shall
have it next. Hill is yet a young
man. He can afford to wait"
CHOW is Nevada getting on? Is
there any likelihood that she will
adjourn and disband ?'
"Not much. Nevada is growing
in population and wealth. Why,
she is in a better condition to -day,
financially, than California. We
doa't owe a dollar, except to our
own school fund, and when we
want any money we borrow il from
the school fund. Our population is
much larger than it was in 1880.
The now census will show great
gains. The figure in so WAS over
GO, 600. Nevada 10 . great State.
Her agricultural interests are far
more important ana valuable than
her mines. Why, during the past
eight month o.last year we shipped
over thousand carloads of pota-
toes, the finest in the world. No
irrigation is used, so the potatoes
are dry and mealy, not like the
watery ones that you raise. We
produce alfalfa such as can be
raised nowhere else. Our cattle
interests are very extensive. Nearly
all the beef that San Francisco con-
sumes comes from Nevada. Our
State land is rapidly being bought.
1t sells from 1925 to $3.50 an
acre."
~ believe Governor. that you
were the first one to successfully
work low grade ores. Is that SO &"
Eyes, believe 1 was. Some
time ago, when the mining furore
was upon as, the men that were
working the mines had an idea that
the deeper one got the richer the
ore was. Thus il came about that
the surface groupings were entirely
neglected. / thought saw chance.
So / bought up all the ore in the
Empire mine above the 500 level
for $45, 900 and had five years in
which to pay. worked hard, and
made money out of it. Then ]
bought into other mines. One day
I was standing at the shaft of the
Consolidated Virginia mine, when
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